District Meeting of K. of P.

Banquet Served in Terrell Following Business Sermon.

Dallas Morning News
Saturday, 6 November 1909
Page 9

Special to The News

Terrell, Tex., Nov. 5 – The annual meeting of the fifteenth district Knights of Pythias was held with the local K. of P. Lodge here last night. The rooms were handsomely decorated with palms, potted plants and Pythian emblems. A banquet was served, following the business session. A special feature of the meeting was the initiation of eighteen candidates in the local lodge. 

Following was the program of the evening:

Convening of Grand Lodge of Emergency at Castle Hall to confer the grand lodge rank on all past chancellors entitled to same; opening of Terrell Lodge No. 5; address of welcome by J. Jay Barton, D.D.G.C. of Terrell Lodge No. 5; response, W.D. Adams, Lillie No. 76 of Forney, Tex.; roll call of lodges of the fifteenth district and report of D.G.C.’s exemplification of secret work. W.W. King, G.C. of Texas, Ennis, Tex., ; conferring of rank of page on class, by Terrell No. 5; address, Hon. W.D. Adams, Lillie No. 76, Forney, Tex.; address, Hon. E.R. Miller, Terrell No. 5, Terrell, Tex.; address, Hon. C.E. Gilmore, Free State No. 216, Wills Point, Tex.; address, Hon. T.H. Perry, Grand Saline No. 133, Grand Saline, Tex.; “The Insurance Department,” John T. Bonner, G.P.C., superintendent insurance department, Tyler, Tex.; “Pythian Achievements,” Henry Miller, G.K.R.S. of Texas, Weatherford, Tex.; “Pythianism and Its Purposes,” W.W. King, G.C. of Texas, Ennis, Tex.

Committees – Refreshments, J.D. Smith, J.W. Meredith, W.W. Cain; program and arrangements, E.R. Miller, John W. Cowles, Dr. W.H. Monday; decorations, C.H. Francisco, Carl Beasley, W.L. Thompson.